The White Blackbird
by Honor Moore
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Margarett Sargent was an icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s. In an evocative weave of biography and memoir, her granddaughter unearths for the first time the life of a spirited and gifted woman committed at all costs to self-expression.Tags
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Honor Moore is the author of the poetry collections Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir. She wrote the biography The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter, which was named a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in New York City.
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- Canonical title
- The White Blackbird
- Original title
- The White Blackbird
- Original publication date
- 1996
- People/Characters
- Margarett Sargent
- Epigraph
- If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
- - The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas - Dedication
- For Margarett Vernon
- First words
- "You will have a bosom like your grandmother's," my mother says.
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